by Nelson Bailey | Jul 2, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Responding to a request by Sunoco Logistics, a Huntingdon County judge has ordered a family and their supporters off the construction path of the Mariner East 2, which runs through their property. The ruling by Judge George Zanic means the family could be arrested on...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety
Supervisors in Buckingham tabled a special use permit for Dominion on Monday to construct a 195-foot microwave communications tower as part of its proposed 53,783-horsepower compressor station along the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. The board’s...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 13, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) A Montgomery County group fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline now has the support of their local government to ask for help in protecting their water. Preserve Montgomery County asked the Board of Supervisors in their meeting Monday...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The industry-funded Your Energy is trying to mobilize a movement to counter pipeline protesters. Amid intensifying fights over new natural gas pipelines in Virginia, New Jersey and New England, the gas industry is ramping up its defense with a new front group meant...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Readers may recall our piece from March, about resistance to the proposed construction of the Nexus pipeline. The pipeline, in which DTE Energy is part owner, is essentially intended to carry natural gas fracked from the western Pennsylvania area to the Dawn Hub in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Everyone who lives within miles of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) should be concerned about safety. The company assures us that the ACP will be safe. However, most of the area through which the ACP passes is considered “low consequence” because there are...